But the plain truth is, no, I’m not holding anything back. There is no Holy Grail out there; there is no top secret rig that only the most successful anglers use. What I described is exactly what I used for the vast majority of last summer and very effective it was, too, although it is not th...

  It’s no reflection on the abilities of our guests, but between them they’ve suffered eight blank days while the cameras rolled. As the UK river levels fall the water gets clearer by the day and catching fish becomes a problem, especially as it has to be done in broad daylight with an an...

I’ve gone mad, it’s official. A year ago I gave up the day job and put together the kind of early retirement plan I’d been dreaming about for more than a decade. It was going to be a life full of indulgence with three days fishing in the week and lots of weekends away with the better half. A y...

Barbel Days And Ways DVDs cost £14.99 each (UK), £15.99 (Rest Of World), including package and posting.   BARBEL DAYS & WAYS VOLUME TWO Barbel Days and Ways Volume Two delves deeper into barbel behaviour, giving the viewer a unique insight into the feeding habits of barbel. Using state ...

Read the inside story… It’s barely a year since Stu (Walker) announced that he was going to film our sturgeon adventure. He’d bought a camcorder, read the instruction manual and was raring to go. We thought he was slightly mad. Surely you had to have some talent to make a movie?   The pl...

                Seeing as so many satisfied customers have seen fit to email Stu and me with their comments on our DVD it seems only fair that we share them with you. This is just some of the things that viewers have told us:    I have seen the DVD and it was brilliant, the whole atmosph...

Cor, time flies when you’re having fun, eh? I must have had loads of fun in the first three weeks of the new season because the time has literally flown by. I mentioned in my last blog that I was making a series of DVDs with Stu Walker and this has taken up every spare moment of our time so far. ...

As you will see from the free DVD clips, Barbel Days and Ways provides a unique insight into the life and feeding habits of the barbel. Using state of the art technology, the cameras get closer than ever before to barbel as they feed, and then bolt as they feel the steel. Add to this an informative...

As a match angler back in the 1980’s I never really hankered after catching a big carp. Okay I would frequently pick up magazines and newspapers to gaze in admiration at covers that portrayed some very serious angler or other cradling what was, for the time, a huge carp. I say huge, but back in...

Earlier this summer Matt Brown and I agreed we really fancied spending a few hours on the Dove. We only had about half a day to spare as I needed to be home by early evening. That meant we would miss both key feeding times – dawn and dusk – but that didn’t bother us in the slightest. It’s j...